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In Memoriam
Tim Hetherington
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Both the film and journalism communities were saddened by the tragic loss of documentarian / photojournalist Tim Hetherington. His life, along with that of colleague Chris Hondros, was taken by mortar fire while the two were embedded among Libyan rebels fighting forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi in the city of Misrata on Wednesday April 20th. Hetherington's gut-wrenching / soul-searching video exposes of life within the combat zones of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria not only won numerous honors (the 2007 World Press Photo and 2009 Alfred I. duPont Broadcast Journalism awards among them) but also lead former president and accused war criminal Charles Taylor to issue an execution order on his head during the Second Liberian Civil War. While Hetherington worked for a short time as an investigator for the United Nations Security Council, he most often traveled under the auspices of Vanity Fair magazine. It was such a 2007 - '08 Vanity Fair assignment to Afghanistan with PERFECT STORM writer Sebastin Junger which lead to the filming of their non political war documentary RESTREPO. Winner of a Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival it would go on to reap an Academy Award nomination the following year. Hetherington's other works include the book INFIDEL as well as the films LIBERIA: AN UNCIVIL WAR, THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK and the award winning AFGHANISTAN - THE OTHER WAR series of reports which aired on ABC's Nightline in 2008. In 2010 he reflected on his years of combat coverage via the twenty minute compendium film DIARY.
Click Here - Chris Hetherington's Vanity Fair portfolio (a slide presentation of images)
Click Here - Sebastian Junger Remembers Tim Hetherington
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VANITY FAIR AND HOLLYWOOD
While sometimes criticized for lavish Oscar night parties and occasionally controversial photo spreads (some cite Herb Ritts' Monica Lewinsky pictorial) few deny Vanity Fair's stature as one of the few remaining citadels of in depth printed investigative journalism. Since the magazine's newest incarnation in 1983 (the original version was folded into Vogue in 1936) the multi-award winning publication has lead the industry with columnists the likes of Christopher Hitchens, Sebastin Junger and the late Dominick Dunne (along with photographic work by Ritts, Hetherington, Annie Liebovitz and others) covering the gamut of world news from high fashion and high art to low down political skullduggery and war.
It's therefore no surprise over two dozen of the magazine's novella length / multi-layered articles have been adapted (or are in the process of being adapted) into films: if not documentaries like Hetherington and Junger's RESTREPO, then certainly fact-based docu-dramas cut from the same thematic cloth. Three of the best known include Talyor Hackford's PROOF OF LIFE (2000), Michael Mann's THE INSIDER (1999) and Billy Ray's SHATTERED GLASS (2003).
